Innovations

Innovations

A core competence at Glassflake Ltd is that of innovation and
significant investment of its sales goes into R&D expenditure
in order for Glassflake Ltd to sustain its competitive advantage in
a global market.

R&D at Glassflake Ltd includes working both with and on
behalf of the customer, identifying their needs and offering
solutions to meet their requirements. With its propriety
borosilicate manufacturing technology Glassflake Ltd have been able
to produce continuously thinner glass flakes over time to as low as
100nm, whilst controlling planarity and particle size morphology.
As such, when used as a pigment it offers unique application
benefits to formulators.

In addition to inducing colour through metal and metal oxide
coatings, Glassflake Ltd have developed a range of self coloured
glass flakes, achieved through the combined use of nucleating and
colouring agents in the glass formulation. It is possible to
achieve intense colours at sub-micron thickness and applications
for these glass flakes include automotive and architectural
coatings.

Glassflake Ltd believe in the importance of open innovation and
as such have good working relationships with a range of external
companies and world class universities in order to accelerate their
know-how and technological capabilities in order to remain
competitive in the industries in which it operates.